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Jul 05.2013

How would I hide part of a string (up to and including a slash)? So if my string is “firstpart/secondpart” — I need it to only output “secondpart”.

Thank you for your help.

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@rtretheweyJul 05.2013 — You're not "hiding" anything. You're extracting a substring. Start with http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php
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@msmith29063authorJul 05.2013 — Yes. That's correct. But the string length/content is going to vary. Not sure substr() would handle that. Thoughts?
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@rtretheweyJul 05.2013 — If you have a specific marker of some kind, you can use strpos() to locate it in the original string and then use the result in substr(). See http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php
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@msmith29063authorJul 05.2013 — I stil don't know how this would look with strpos(). Can you offer an example?
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@rtretheweyJul 06.2013 — Extracting substrings is a common task, and like many programming issues, there are several different ways of doing it. The best choice depends on exactly what you're trying to do. It would also be helpful to have an idea of your programming skills so that I'm not just spoon-feeding you code that might solve your example problem, but would be of little use in solving your actual problem. Could you post some of your existing code so I can get an idea of what you're trying to do and where you are at the moment.
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@msmith29063authorJul 06.2013 — Thank you for the explanation. I've got it worked out. Ended up using strtok().
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